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Oracle has imposed a fee of $90 per user on a plug-in for Microsoft Office that was available at no cost under Sun Microsystems’ ownership. The tool allows Word, Excel, and PowerPoint users to read, edit, and save documents in the ODF (Open Document Format), which is used by the competing OpenOffice productivity suite. [ [...]

Microsoft has taken another step toward releasing its Visual Studio 2010 IDE and the accompanying .Net Framework 4 programming platform, offering a release candidate (RC) for the paired technologies on Monday. The RC stage is considered the last step prior to a general release, with developers able to offer final feedback. Microsoft has scheduled the [...]

Alfresco Wednesday said it would ship software this spring to integrate its content management software with the lineup of IBM Lotus software, notably Lotus Quickr. The company said it would unveil Alfresco Content Services for Lotus social collaboration software next week at IBM’s annual Lotusphere conference in Orlando. Quickr is team collaboration and content management [...]

Beset by performance issues, Microsoft has decided to extend the beta testing period for its upcoming Visual Studio 2010 software development platform and will postpone the planned March 22, 2010, launch date by a few weeks, a Microsoft executive said in a blog on Thursday. Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 and the accompanying .Net Framework [...]